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Sean Tucker Sean Tucker Photographer and author Speaking

Sean Tucker

The photographer and author of The Meaning in the Making will speak at The Photography Show in March. Niall Hampton finds out what can we expect

Photo Active

10 things you can shoot, edit or create this month, from double exposures to winter sports and wildlife

PHOTOGRAPHY ON A BUDGET

10 creative ways to capture professional-quality pictures with basic photo kit, by Dan Mold

CAMERA CLINIC

Master the art of modern photography

Discover Excire Foto Light

Keep your photos organised with this month’s bonus software download

The power of Point Colour

This new tool for Photoshop and Lightroom lets you fine-tune colours in your photos with precision

Transform photos by boosting contrast

Let’s explore the range of Lightroom tools for adding contrast and beefing up your shots

Quick landscape editing effects

Editing any image doesn’t have to be a laborious process, with Photoshop providing some quick and effective tools for applying creative adjustments

Improve your shots with our Actions and Presets

THIS MONTH’S BONUS SOFTWARE EXTRAS

GuruShots

We’ve joined up with GuruShots, the world’s greatest online photography game, to present the winning images from its Macro View contest

Photo Answers

Annoyed about aperture? Losing it over longexposure? Send your technique and camera questions to digitalcamera@futurenet.com

The art of seeing

Benedict Brain on meandering mindfully in Central America, looking for beauty in the banal

Hotshots

The winning entries f rom Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023

Reader gallery

Digital Camera readers continue to impress us with their captures, by submitting images across a range of genres

Shot of the month

In a timely new book, Nikita Teryoshin takes his viewers behind the curtain of the global arms industry

In Focus

The latest photography news from around the globe

Remembering Tigers

ENTER TODAY! Submit your images of tigers in the wild for the chance to be featured in the latest in the Remembering Wildlife fundraising book series: Remembering Tigers

Scanning ahead…

With new smartphones rolling out, Jon Devo considers the impact of AI-driven creative tools

KitZone

New gear, buying tips and the world’s toughest tests

Buyer’s guide

DSLR & MIRRORLESS CAMERAS PLUS: Our best-buy accessories

Leica M11-P £8,000/$9,195

Leads the fightback for AI accreditation – and looks great doing it www.leica-camera.com

GOLD AWARD

Camera drone DJI Mini 4 Pro

7Artisans 9mm F5.6 £459/$479

Prime lens 7Artisans 9mm F5.6

Tamron 70-180mm F2 .8 Di III VC VXD G2 £1,329/$1,229

Zoom lens Tamron 70-180mm F2.8 Di III VC VXD G2